Florida and golf are a natural combination. Despite the summer rains, Florida is known as the Sunshine State for a reason. Many towns experience more than 300 days of sunshine a year. For golfing enthusiasts, Florida is a veritable paradise.

The central Florida communities of Kissimmee, Davenport, Clermont, and Orlando boast a huge number of excellent golf courses. Many of the finest golfers in the world reside in this part of the country. Tiger Woods? main residence is just southwest of Orlando. In fact, Orlando itself is home to nearly 90 public golf courses and a host of private courses. Beyond the famed theme parks, family attractions and plentiful beach rentals, golf is a major part of the central Florida experience.

Eagle Creek is a Scottish style course situated just southeast of the Orlando International Airport. It has revetted bunkers and other features of golf that can usually only be experienced in Scotland. The Grande Pines Golf Club is located close to Sea World in central Orlando, just off International Drive. Newly renovated, the course was considered to be one of the finest before the redesign, and is now habitually showered with praise from experts and amateur golfers alike.

Of course, Orlando is just one town in central Florida where golfing is important to the tourist market. Davenport, a small town located on US Highway 17/92 in Polk County, southwest of Orlando, has unexpectedly top-quality courses. The Ridgewood Golf Club at Davenport was voted one of Florida?s top 30 courses. The course was established by Ted McAnlis and has an extraordinary reputation. The club offers Champions Turf greens, new bunkers, leveled tee boxes and the sort of luxuriant landscaping that golfers in Florida have come to insist on.

Another Scottish style course in the area is the Highlands Reserve Golf Resort north of Davenport. This course boasts exceptional scenery and is located on one of the highest spots in Florida. Old Florida citrus trees adorn the edges of the course and scattered pines are reminiscent of courses in the Carolinas.

Kissimmee, Florida is nearly adjacent to Orlando and is commonly used by visitors as a center of operations when traveling to the points of interest in Orlando. But Kissimmee has plenty to offer in its own right, including the Kissimmee Bay Country Club which was recognized as one of America?s Best New Courses by Golf Digest in the 1990s. The course is 11 miles from the Orlando Airport and contains the physical beauty of a lakeside setting shaded by sprawling oak trees and abundant wildlife. Kissimme presents the kind of romantic travel you may be searching for while also incorporating family fun.

The neighboring city of Clermont has nine public courses, which is a spectacular number for a town of only 13,000 people. The more well-known of these courses include The Legends Golf and Country Club, Kings Ridge Golf Club, Swiss Fairways, Green Valley Country Club, and Sanctuary Ridge Golf.

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